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Bike Touring Basics: A Free eBook

Since we started this site in 2006, you’ve sent us all kinds of questions on bike touring.

How can I save money for a tour? Are panniers better than trailers? What kind of bike should I buy?

From today, you can get the answers to these and many more questions in our new Bike Touring BasicseBook. It’s taken us many weeks of work but we think you’ll agree, the final result looks great.

It’s 60 pages of advice, tips and inspiration, drawn from our own bike touring experience and put together with photos, quotes and contributions from across the bike touring community. We hope it will encourage you to get out and travel by bicycle, as well as answering some of those questions everyone has when they get ready for a big tour.

Just one more thing, once you’ve read Bike Touring Basics, don’t forget to let us know what you think. This is just the first of many books we hope to publish so we’d love to know what you want to see in the next one.

It is very well done and covers a lot of very practical information. After reading your entire journal, I find you give very worthwhile advise that people can use right away. I tend to do things on the go and despite leaving for a long trip in a few months, found excellent reminders of things I still have to do. My reminders to myself always seem to get lost so it’s nice to have a single source.

If anyone is contemplating a bike tour, particularly beginners, this is where they should start.

About Us

We’re Friedel & Andrew: two Canadians who love travelling by bicycle. We’ve travelled through over 30 countries and cycled over 60,000km. Most of that distance was covered on a bike tour around the world from 2006-2009. Read More »

Bike Touring Survival Guide

250 pages of tips from over 50 experienced bike tourists.

"Chock full of encouragement and helpful information for bike touring"